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  1. Re:Tabloid trash on BitCoin, the Most Dangerous Project Ever? · · Score: 2

    But mostly the good kind.

  2. Re:My money is on him winning that science fair. n on 16-Year-Old Discovers Potential Treatment For Cystic Fibrosis · · Score: 1

    He will be disqualified from the science fair for using living cells, chemicals and drugs. He will then be expelled and arrested in accordance with the schools zero tolerance policy.

  3. Re:No thank you... on 35% Use Mobile Apps Before Getting Out of Bed · · Score: 1

    Because only dorks have PDA's.

  4. Re:Social Networking in bed? on 35% Use Mobile Apps Before Getting Out of Bed · · Score: 1

    Technically you can network with just two, but I prefer a well connected grid.

  5. Re:Summary is wrong on Facebook Admits Hiring PR Firm To Smear Google · · Score: 1

    You answered the wrong question. The point you make is not relevant to the post you respond too.

    In the UK, saying something TRUE can be libel. In the US, saying something TRUE can not be libel.

    In both cases, you can say something untrue, but it still does not fall under libel.

  6. Re:what record to break? on Human Powered Helicopter Aims To Break Records · · Score: 1

    The worlds highest flying human powered helicopter... There was already a first.

  7. Re:but but on High-Tech Gas Drilling Is Fouling Drinking Water · · Score: 2

    Ever? When was the last time you bought spoiled meat that had red clothing dye that contains mercury added for color and borax cleaning agent added to remove the smell? That was industry standard operating procedure in the US until food safety regulation. When was the last time you heard about a factory burning down and killing hundreds of employees because the exits were chained to prevent people taking a 15 minute break in their 16 hour shift?

    When was the last time you heard about someone lacing milk with poison for profit? Actually that one was pretty recent from wonderfully unregulated china.

    Unregulated capitalism can only work in societies favor if everyone is completely honest and completely informed. Deregulate and people will be lied to, used, abused, poisoned and killed without consequence or recourse just as they were in centuries past.

  8. Re:Internet on Ask Slashdot: Is It Time For SyFy To Go Premium? · · Score: 1

    The only thing that would make wrestling fit on sci-fi is this: http://kaiju.com

  9. Re:If I had a car... on Battle Brews Over FBI's Warrantless GPS Tracking · · Score: 1

    Taking apart your car means entering the car and they do need a warrant for that

  10. Re:How is this possible? on Anonymous Under Civil War? · · Score: 1

    The most trivial way to make your system hack proof is to never turn it on.

  11. Re:Cool, lets wait a couple years though on Canadian Researchers Create Thin-Film Flexible Paperphone · · Score: 1

    Indeed. Your local neighborhood drug dealer or terrorist can make good use of your old cell.

  12. Re:Not viable yet on Canadian Researchers Create Thin-Film Flexible Paperphone · · Score: 1

    Sure thing Mr Rodriguez.

  13. Re:not cool on Oracle's Android Claims Cut By 98% · · Score: 1

    Communism has never been practiced... on a national scale. Plenty of practicing communist groups exist and some of them have been around longer than the word communism.

  14. Re:My guess is ATM porn on 'Motherlode' of Data Seized At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    Oh my Allah! They killed Bini, those infidels!

  15. Re:It where the energy comes from. on Computer Factories Are the Energy Hogs · · Score: 1

    That depends on your definition of "hazardous chemicals". Liquid salt at 800 degrees F is definitely hazardous as are acres of glass and steel after a tornado, but not in the way you were thinking.

  16. Re:Misleading... on Computer Factories Are the Energy Hogs · · Score: 1

    You forgot a database vs the cost of feeding a hundred file clerks.

  17. Re:WTF? on Hypertext Creator: Structure of the Web 'Completely Wrong' · · Score: 1

    You can already do this. right click, select open in new tab/window. or the creator of the app can add a target to the link, or you could write a plugin that appends a target to every link, or the developer can use some fancy ajax to make a popup with an iframe appear with the linked page.

    There are so many ways to do this already, the only hard part is deciding which one you actually want.

  18. Re:is it just me? on America's Tech Decline: a Reading Guide · · Score: 1

    Not really. The poverty line for a single person is less than $750 a month.
    It isn't possible to pay rent, basic utilities and buy food on that anywhere in the US, much less afford gas, automotive taxes and mandatory drivers insurance as well.

    You try feeding a family of 5 on food stamps of $100 a month. now do that when you don't have a car to drive to a cheap grocery store and have to use the shops in walking distance (in rural USA, there are none, in the inner city they charge 3 to 10 times more for the same food as a bulk grocery store).

    In the US laws are passed that prohibit the building of "shanties" and multiple cohabitation's, when these are the only way for the poor to be able to afford a place to live.

  19. Re:C#/Mono similar? on Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project · · Score: 1

    C# is a bit easier on the developer, I actually like the language itself a little better than java. But the CLR just doesn't have the performance and stability of the JVM to make it a better option for serious work.

  20. Re:Ceylon? on Red Hat Uncloaks 'Java Killer': the Ceylon Project · · Score: 1

    By mass it does. But you usually use less mass of tea leaves to make tea than you do with coffee beans to make coffee. Tea's caffeine is also bound in leaf flakes that have less surface area than finely ground coffee. Finally, thanks to that fine ground nature, a larger amount of solid coffee ends up in the drink than does tea that is more easily caught by a filter.

    To get a good high caffeine tea, you must grind the tea very well, use boiling water rather than merely hot water (place your tea in the teapot rather than pouring water onto your tea where it rapidly cools) and filter it very poorly.

  21. Re:Mineral oil = nightmare on A Closer Look At Immersion Cooling For the Data Center · · Score: 1

    With oils convection, thermal conductivity and heat capacity, these are the reasons to choose submersion over air for cooling. When it takes a thousand times more energy to raise a cubic centimeter of oil by a degree, you are in a much more forgiving situation than with air.

  22. Re:Actually it's physics and BIOLOGY on Forget Space Travel, It's Just a Dream · · Score: 1

    You would still have to lift material into orbit to supply an orbital colony. Even if you use material from asteroids, you still have to get it into a planetary orbit from its solar orbit. It makes ridiculously more sense in the long term to pt your colony where the resources and work are, and that is on the ground if you are colonizing mars.

    I already addressed the gravity problem in my first post. A small reactor or moderately sized array of solar cells, could provide plenty of power to run a train in a circular track to amplify the felt gravity from the ~.3 to closer to 1 on the big IF that it is needed. 1/3 gravity is greatly different from microgravity, it is much much closer to normal. I would not bet that we would really need more gravity.

  23. Re:Actually it's physics and BIOLOGY on Forget Space Travel, It's Just a Dream · · Score: 1

    No. You are comparing apples and atom bombs.

    You are talking about a more or less daily commute to and from orbit using propellant, or building a space elevator on mars and using that for a more or less daily commute. You are talking about magic.

    No sane person is going to say we can fly a whole colony out to mars with anything less than an Orion type nuclear powered ship. What we can do, and do in the next few decades with current technology is create an automated seed factory capable of building a colony on mars without humans present from local materials. That is an exercise in engineering and politics (for the budget as it won't be cheap), not magic.

  24. Re:Actually it's physics and BIOLOGY on Forget Space Travel, It's Just a Dream · · Score: 1

    The energy cost of orbiting and de-orbiting personnel are so horrific, even with a "space elevator" that the cost of running a train in a circular track so that colonists could spend a part of their day near 1g would be practically a rounding error.

  25. Re:Yes! It has delivered! on Internet2 Turns 15. Has It Delivered? · · Score: 2

    Amateur co-ed is the best kind anyway. So yes, that is where it comes from.